Rachel Sylvester in the Times says Brown's policy package was "a relaunch made up of rehashed policy announcements and repackaged spending commitments, less a national plan than a national repeat" and that, privately, many ministers are in despair about Labour's prospects.

Peter Riddell in the Times says Lord Mandelson's influence is obvious in the document, "a mixture of an economic recovery plan, a draft legislative programme and first draft of Labour's election manifesto".

The Times editorial says Brown's plans are "worthless unless they are accompanied by credible spending plans".

The Sun editorial says "this ramshackle, paralysed and incompetent government is now either utterly delusional about the frightening scale of our economic crisis, or it is taking the entire nation for fools".

Matthew Taylor on his blog says it's not clear where local government fits into the new regime, although he understands that there's "some good news for councils coming later this week".

Nick Robinson on his blog quotes a Westminster mandarin as saying of the Brown document: "Stick a red rose on the front and it could be a Labour manifesto."